Andrew Bringuel
Executive Director, Behavioral Science Unit Foundation, Inc
2024
Mr. Bringuel is a retired FBI Supervisory Special Agent and the Executive Director of the Behavioral
Science Unit, LLC (BSU, LLC) a private security, training, consulting, and research firm located in central
New York. He is also the President of the not-for-profit Behavioral Science Unit Foundation, Inc. (BSUF).
He is currently the town Judge in Willet, New York. Currently, the BSU, LLC is working on an Office of
Justice Programs grant providing training and technical assistance to the nation’s stakeholders
interested in re-investigating cold case civil rights homicides pre-1980 as part of the Emmett Till Program.
Mr. Bringuel has been interviewed by Newsweek, the New York Times, and Huffington Post on issues
ranging from workplace violence to terrorism. He has provided crime analysis for several news outlets
and co-hosts two podcasts. Mr. Bringuel has published articles on terrorism and policing and is
published in three books.
Mr. Bringuel served 27 years as an FBI Agent investigating civil rights, public corruption, industrial
espionage, terrorism, and foreign counterintelligence cases. Mr. Bringuel’s investigative
accomplishments include finding a key piece of evidence from an improvised explosive device that killed
Federal Judge William Vance. He was the Case Agent in a five-year organized crime investigation
involving associates of the Genovese crime family wherein Mr. Bringuel received the Attorney General’s
Award for environmental crimes investigations. Mr. Bringuel worked as an undercover agent in a year-
long operation involving intellectual property theft. He was a crisis negotiator during the Montana
Freemen barricade and was a first responder to the Eric Rudolph abortion clinic bombing in Birmingham,
Alabama as well as a first responder to the Pentagon after the terrorist attacks on 09/11/2001.
He led two highly successful evidence-based research programs at the FBI Academy and was awarded
the Thomas Jefferson Award for research regarding work as program manager of the Terrorism
Research Analysis Program (TRAP).
Mr. Bringuel earned a bachelor’s degree in criminology from St. Leo University and a master’s degree in
education from the University of Virginia. He instructed police officers and executives at the FBI National
Academy and in-services worldwide at the International Law Enforcement Academies. He is a former
adjunct for the University of Virginia and Catholic University.
Mr. Bringuel is the proud father of a daughter who is in her fifth year serving the FBI and a son who
recently graduated from New Agents Training and is working Violent Crimes. In his spare time, Mr.
Bringuel enjoys coaching little league softball, and spending time with his 9-year-old daughter, and 1-
year-old Golden Retriever at his home on Cincinnatus Lake.
The inaugural Eradicate Hate Summit was a truly impressive gathering of leaders dedicated to finding lasting and effective solutions to violent extremism. I was particularly moved by the prominence given to survivors and family members of victims of hate and violence throughout the event. Their stories and those of so many others must be at the center of what we do and why we do it.
